The 1913 Copa de Competencia La Nación Final was the final that decided the winner of the 1st. edition of

Copa de Competencia La Nación The Copa de Competencia "La Nación" (also called "Concurso por Eliminación") was an official Argentine football cup competition organized by dissident " Federación Argentina de Football" (FAF), being first held in 1913. The tournament only had ...

, an Argentine domestic cup organised by dissident body

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. The match was contested by

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and

Rosario Central Club Atlético Rosario Central (), more commonly referred to as Rosario Central, or simply Central, is a sports club based in Rosario, Argentina, that plays in the Argentine Primera División. The club was officially founded on 24 December 1889, ...

. The final was held in Gimnasia y Esgrima Stadium in

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, on October 26, 1913. Rosario Central beat Argentino 3–2,Argentina – Concurso por Eliminación 1913
by Osvaldo Gorgazzi on the

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winning their first national title ever."Rosario Central campeón del Concurso por Eliminación 1913" by Leonardo Volpe on Historia del Fútbol Rosarino (blogsite), 17 Mar 2011

Qualified teams

Overview

This edition was contested by all the teams of the 1913 Primera División season (excepting Tigre) plus Second Division teams. The competition was named after newspaper ''

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'', which had donated the trophy. The competition was played under a

single-elimination A single-elimination knockout, or sudden-death tournament is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of a match-up is immediately eliminated from the tournament. Each winner will play another in the next round, until the final match-up, w ...

format, with two Rosario representatives entering directly to semifinals. In that stage, Rosario Central beat

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2–1 at Independiente stadium, earning its right to play the final. On the other hand, Argentino started in round of 16, beating Juventud del Tigre 3–1, Gimnasia y Esgrima BA 2–0,

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1–0 and

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4–0 in the semifinal.

Road to the final

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Match details

References

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